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Finance Business Partner
Location: Salford, Hybrid
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Salary: 68,000 - 70,000 + Bonus
About the Opportunity
We are working with a well-established and growing organisation to recruit an experienced Finance Business Partner to join their finance leadership team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded qualified accountant to partner closely with senior operational stakeholders, providing financial insight, challenge and analysis to support business performance and decision-making.
The successful candidate will have strong ownership of management information, budgeting and forecasting, while working closely with Managing Directors and operational teams to understand performance, identify opportunities and drive improvements across the business.
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will act as a key finance partner to senior operational stakeholders, providing clear and commercially focused financial analysis across multiple business areas.
You will be responsible for understanding business performance, challenging assumptions and forecasts, and translating financial information into meaningful insight that supports operational and strategic decisions.
The role will also retain a strong technical finance element, including management accounts, financial controls, reconciliations and reporting, alongside opportunities to improve processes and develop the wider finance function.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Managing Directors and senior operational stakeholders.
- Provide clear financial insight and challenge to support commercial decision-making.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning across assigned business areas.
- Prepare and review monthly management accounts and branch accounts.
- Analyse financial performance, identifying trends, variances and key business drivers.
- Review gross profit, margins, productivity and other key commercial KPIs.
- Challenge forecasts and operational plans to ensure financial targets remain achievable.
- Support non-finance stakeholders in understanding financial performance and key metrics.
- Produce financial analysis and management information for senior leadership.
- Investigate performance issues and work with operational teams to identify corrective actions.
- Build strong relationships across the business and influence stakeholders outside of finance.
- Ensure robust financial controls, reporting processes and reconciliations are maintained.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting, automate processes and drive efficiencies.
- Support statutory accounts, audit and wider technical accounting requirements.
- Provide technical accounting guidance where required.
- Contribute to finance transformation projects and wider business initiatives.
- Support and develop members of the finance team.
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About You
We are looking for a commercially focused Finance Business Partner who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders and influence business decisions.
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You will be comfortable getting into the detail of the numbers but, importantly, will be able to step back and explain what the numbers mean for the business.
You will ideally have:
- CIMA qualified or equivalent.
- Strong post-qualification experience within a commercial finance environment.
- Proven experience working as a Finance Business Partner / Commercial Finance Manager / Senior Finance Business Partner.
- Strong management accounts experience.
- Extensive budgeting, forecasting and financial planning experience.
- Proven experience partnering with senior operational stakeholders.
- Strong commercial analysis and business partnering skills.
- Experience analysing profitability, margins, KPIs and business performance.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Strong Excel and financial reporting systems experience.
- A proactive approach to process improvement and automation.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, with experience of financial controls, audit and statutory reporting.
What's on Offer?
- Competitive salary dependent on experience.
- Senior, commercially focused finance position.
- Direct exposure to senior leadership and operational decision-making.
- Opportunity to influence business performance rather than purely report on it.
- Responsibility across multiple business areas.
- Opportunity to drive improvements across finance and the wider organisation.
- Supportive working environment with continued professional development.
- Hybrid working options available.
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